No more booking fees with Expedia.co.uk

[mitchja]

Not sure when this happened but Expedia.co.uk no longer charge those nasty 5.00 booking fees they used to for flight bookings [8D] [y]

Just booked a flight with them and they where the cheapest out of Opodo and Travelocity for the very same flight (Expedia was actually over 20 cheaper than Opodo [:0] [y])

Regards

[preiffer]

Give it 5 years or so and VS might realise that introducing mandatory booking 'fees' actually puts people off [ii]

[mitchja]

Just done a few comparisons between VS and Expedia.

The initial VS fares are now only a few pence cheaper than Expedia but as preiffer pointed out, add on the VS CC fee and Expedia are now cheaper.

I wonder if the VS price promise takes the VS CC fee into account [:?]

Regards

[mitchja]

Well this didn't last long......The £5.00 Expedia booking fee is now back again on flight bookings [:(!]

On asking them why, they tell me is because the airlines are reducing the amount of commission they pay agents.

Regards

If you book via VS, go via Quidco and you get 1% back of the fare (pre-tax) which should cover the £3 card surcharge.

Though you should really be going to VS via a link on here so v-flyer get the money [oo]

[RichardMannion]

You think this is bad? AmEx travel charges £10 to all customers for flight bookings - it was around that time I stopped using them for my flights.

It makes you wonder where these fees go? To pay for the tea trolley lady's stock and her wages in Head Office?